Trips

Part one of our two-week loop: Little Rock sculpture, Memphis metal, a giant glass pyramid, and Nashville from the Parthenon to hundred-layer donuts.

The shutdown locked Mammoth Cave, so Kentucky improvised: Corvettes, an underground boat ride, bourbon at Beam, and a full-on Louisville museum blitz.

Two days of Cincinnati, from the American Sign Museum to the Roebling Bridge, then up the road to Columbus for a slingshot and a very large bronze Arnold.

One long Sunday from Columbus to Erie: the Rock Hall, a castle in the woods, America’s longest covered bridge, and one seriously oversized rocking chair.

The long road home: Pittsburgh overlooks, a real coal mine in Beckley, a Dollywood day, and a Memphis finale from Stax to the Lorraine Motel.

Three days, 500 miles: a lone moai, a doomed Buc-ee’s, the two-story Whataburger, and the heaviest history in Texas at Goliad.